The final edition of The Dandy rolls off the presses

Watch the final print run of The Dandy as Britain's longest-living comic comes
to the end of the trail.

12:01AM GMT 04 Dec 2012

Britain's longest-running comic, The Dandy, has embraced the digital age by relaunching as an exclusively online publication.

The last printed edition of the 75-year-old comic, which features the likes of cow-pie-eating hero Desperate Dan, has rolled off the presses. It features a cameo from Sir Paul McCartney, who said in 1963 it was his ambition to appear in the comic.

The Dandy will now be available to download online and as a smartphone and tablet app.

Dundee-based publisher DC Thompson announced in August that the weekly children's comic would make the transition into cyberspace following dwindling sales in recent years.